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Dear Joe
Thank you so much for your response. It is so confusing. I too am having MRI's and it sounds much like Christine's. It has been exactly a year since my radiation. I too am going to get other opinions. I think the reasons that I am frustrated are that the rad onc basically said "Well this is just a little smudge on your MRI, your lung mets are going to kill you first" so I was wondering if she was sort of not following through on the brain stuff in an aggressive manner. I have a friend who had a brain met from lung cancer that was removed and then radiated and several months later it showed up again and they took her right to surgery and found a few active cancer cells and the rest was necrosis. So I was wondering why they were just recommending scans with me unless they were sort of giving up.
( It didn't help that there were no treatment records in my chart, she couldn't remember at first how she radiated me so how on earth could she say this was within the radiation field? )
I just felt that because I have other mets, they were going to let this "smudge" go and that didn't feel right to me.
Do you think I should be seeing rad oncs for second opinions or neurosurgeons? I don't think I can get in to Keith Black, he is very full.
I SO appreciate your input because I just know I can trust your information.
Regards,
Rosie
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